JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY

JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY operates as a sprawling K-5 school in GALLUP, New Mexico, part of GALLUP. Current enrollment sits at 460 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 287 students per school, that is 60% above typical.

GALLUP runs 33 schools in total, collectively educating 12,698 students. JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY records that 60% of the student body identifies as Native American. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 37.2%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, McKinley County reports that median household income runs about $47,668, roughly 13% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 28% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, McKinley County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,807 students), of which JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY is one.

The closest other public school is JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 32.8%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 33%: 345 students in 2018 compared to 460 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 10% to 5% over that span.

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